Short-term effects of forest fire on soil microorganism and enzyme activities of <i>Pinus tabuliformis</i> forest in Taiyue Mountain, Shanxi Province of northern China

Shen Ying; Qin Tao; Guo Yinhua; Zhang Huan; Zhou Zhiyong

doi:10.12171/j.1000-1522.20210042

Journal of Beijing Forestry University > 2022 > 44(4): 76-85. > DOI: 10.12171/j.1000-1522.20210042

Shen Ying, Qin Tao, Guo Yinhua, Zhang Huan, Zhou Zhiyong. Short-term effects of forest fire on soil microorganism and enzyme activities of Pinus tabuliformis forest in Taiyue Mountain, Shanxi Province of northern China[J]. Journal of Beijing Forestry University, 2022, 44(4): 76-85. DOI: 10.12171/j.1000-1522.20210042

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Short-term effects of forest fire on soil microorganism and enzyme activities of Pinus tabuliformis forest in Taiyue Mountain, Shanxi Province of northern China

Shen Ying^{1, 2,},
Qin Tao³,
Guo Yinhua^{1, 2},
Zhang Huan¹,
Zhou Zhiyong^{1, 2, ,}

1.
School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China
2.
Shanxi Taiyue Mountain Forest Ecosystem National Orientation Observation andResearch Station, Changzhi 046000, Shanxi, China
3.
School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

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Received Date: February 04, 2021
Revised Date: May 18, 2021
Available Online: October 15, 2021
Published Date: April 24, 2022

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Objective The function restoration of fired forest depends not only on the time of forest fire, but also on the forest fire type and intensity. It has great ecological implications for the reconstruction of forest structure to study soil physicochemical properties in short time period after fire occurrence.
Method Soil samples were taken separately during the depth of 0−5 cm and 5−10 cm in the burned area by crown fire and surface fire within one month since the fire occurrence, and then the soils were analyzed for soil microbial biomass, soil enzyme activity, and soil nutrient content. The metabolic entropy of soil microorganisms was estimated based on these analyzed soil properties.
Result Forest fire had a great effect on soil biophysical properties at 0−5 cm depth. Compared with forest surface fire, forest crown fire increased soil nutrient content, soil respiration rate (3.85%) and soil extracellular enzyme activities (47.67%), but it decreased the values of soil moisture content (21.95%) and soil microbial biomass carbon (27.98%) and nitrogen (9.65%) content. The result of statistical analysis indicated that forest fire manipulated soil microbial activity via the changed soil nutrient contents.
Conclusion Higher values are found in soil nutrient contents, the activities of soil microbial organism and extracellular enzymes in burned sample plots during short time period after forest fire. The crown fire exerts a stronger priming effect on soil biophysical properties especially in soil depth of 0 to 5 cm. The positive correlations of soil nutrient and the activities of soil microbes and enzymes indicate that soil physicochemical properties would get improved with the time of forest fire.
- surface fire,
- forest crown fire,
- metabolism entropy,
- enzyme activity,
- soil physicochemical property,
- soil microbial biomass

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